N.Y. General Business Law § 396-w: Loitering for the purpose of soliciting passengers for transportation

§ 396-w. Loitering for the purpose of soliciting passengers for

transportation. 1. Any person who loiters or remains in or about any

airport located within a county wholly contained within a city, without

the prior written authorization of the New York city taxi and limousine

commission or the state department of transportation to do so, and

beckons to, or stops, or attempts to stop, or interferes with the free

passage of other persons, for the purpose of soliciting passengers for

transportation by motor vehicle, from one location to another, for

money; is guilty of a violation punishable by a fine of not more than

one hundred dollars, or imprisonment for not more than fifteen days, or

both. A second or subsequent violation of this section shall be a class

B misdemeanor.

2. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to deny any

person the right to discharge passengers from a motor vehicle at such an

airport.